Management Information

Jisc Procureweb's Annual Returns Database (ARD), Efficiency Measurement Model (EMM) and Procurement Efficiency Survey (formally the EMM Return) are used to improve collaboration and collate data about procurement efficiencies achieved by English higher education institutions respectively.

Jisc Procureweb's systems streamline the data collection process.

Annual Returns Database

The Annual Returns Database will allow you to generate reports relating to your annual return data.

The database is a vital management information tool that drives collaborative procurement within the Higher Education (HE) sector and used by consortia to collect and analyse the non-pay spend of their members.

Measure

Measure allows for input of data from any authorised point across your institution and then facilitates the reporting of cash savings and efficiency gains. Measure collects, collates and presents your achievements in tabular and graphical formats suitable for inclusion in internal reports to, for example, your senior management as well as for reporting to your Funding Council.

Measure has been designed for use by various sectors with data entry now on a month-by-month basis. The intention is to continue to develop Measure's functionality to help ease and improve the management of data collection that facilitate the monitoring of your institution's procurement achievements for you.

Measure has been developed for the sector by Spikes Cavell, on behalf of Procureweb, and includes interoperability with the company's Observatory which is being used across the public sector to deliver the spend & supplier data necessary to identify real savings, collaborate more effectively, improve contract compliance and evidence success.

Measure is free to use by all HE institutions and where an institution is a subscriber to the Observatory, the Measure option will also be without additional fee. For Colleges there are arrangements in place. Please contact Procureweb for details

Spikes Cavell provide web training sessions for Measure to register please complete the form.

Procurement Efficiency Survey and BPI's

This annual survey (formally the EMM Return) comprises: the EMM data which institutions have been completing for a number of years and Best Practice indicators (BPI) data on behalf of HEFCE and English National Procurement (ENP).

The purpose of the Efficiency Measurement Model is to enable institutional procurement teams to demonstrate their efficiencies to institutional senior management and governors.

The survey collates this information via Jisc Procureweb. Data is summarised by region and then each Regional Purchasing Consortium presents a consolidated high level report to HEFCE. Who then use the summary information to report procurement efficiencies to central government.

The UUK Strategic Procurement Group and ENP have agreed a set of high level procurement best practice indicators which help the group demonstrate the value of procurement in the sector, which will also assist in setting a strategic direction for procurement.

 

 

Efficiency

 

 

Effectiveness

 

1.

Total cost of procurement function as % of non pay spend

 

Benchmark =0.9%

4.

% of non pay spend actively influenced by procurement function

 

Benchmark =90%

2.

%age of non pay spend channelled through collaborative procurement arrangements

 

Benchmark =25%

 

5.

Annual procurement savings as % of non pay spend

 

Benchmark =3.5%

 

3.

% of orders placed electronically and via purchasing cards

 

Benchmark =90%

6.

% of professionally qualified procurement staff

 

Benchmark =66.7%

Examples and definitions can be found here